China Rural Water and Hydropower. 2016, (2):
82-86.
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Nandong underground river is composed of two independent underground river systems of South Branch Cave and North Branch Cave, which flows out of the ground surface through many outlets after being mixed in complex cave system. Special cave structure and extremely poor air environment in the cave lead to difficulties in measuring, dividing, measuring, evolving and studying subsystem runoff volume. End-source method was adopted as guiding ideology in the study. Caves were explored and studied in dry season. Water was sampled from two underground river locations and outside the cave for analysis. Nandong underground river water chemical features, mud content, hydrogen and oxygen isotopic feature and other characteristics were analyzed. Hydrochemistry ion, isotope, river sand content and other indexes were filtered according to the laws of the dilute solution. Principle of mass conservation was utilized for studying proportion relations between runoffs of two subsystems. Analysis results showed that firstly Nandong underground river belongs to HCO3 — Ca·Mg water with carbonate hardness more than 50%, which is mainly controlled by rock weathering effect; secondly, runoff ratio of south and north branches was 4.3722:1, namely south branch runoff accounts for 81.48% of total runoff in Nandong underground river. It provided reference from evaluation, rational development and allocation of water resources in Nandong underground river. Meanwhile, the research method has certain reference significance for studying system runoff identification.